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I am sixteen and am American. you are so wrong and biased. this article sickens me. If you are a real man at all you would know that true love does not care about size! i suggest you read the bible and see what God says about marriage and love.

Yes in Russia we have different values and habits that came from the Soviet times. These habits assume more traditional role divide between females and males. A woman looks after the house, cooks traditional Russian food and is good to her husband. This traditional role play has its advantages. Admin mentioned “feeling like a man”; same applies to women, who feel more like real women.
BUT!
You are forgetting probably the most important detail – over 22 million Russian soldiers died during the second world war, which is stupid to compare to US and UK altogether forming few thousand military death. Who goes to war? Men. So let me, as a Russian girl explain to you why what you are saying is wrong despite anecdotal evidence being on your side.

With such crazily uneven distribution between men and women, it is extremely difficult for most of the Russian female population to find a sober and nice man they can marry. This is especially important in a more traditional social norm scenario, because a man’s role in Russia is to look after the family financially; and it is common to have a wife sitting at home looking after babies. So what happens to all these desperate women with higher education (because it is another social norm with little value in terms of career impact) who cannot find a Russian man who would look after them financially? They look abroad, just like desperate Western men do, when they cannot find a woman that is skinny enough to their taste.
Of course they are going to look after themselves 300% of their spare time, underrating and trying to polish their attitude to suit the Western standard. It’s nearly a survival instinct effect. And it may look like Russian men treat their women good (“open doors, kiss hands, etc”), but it is simply the tradition of “winning the woman over”. I personally like that tradition, as a girl, because you end up having many men after you all giving you presents and kissing your feet. But you have to take this into the perspective, as this traditional view on gender roles is much closer to patriarchate. I am not an eager feminist, but I do believe that women should have equal opportunities in their lives.

This does not happen in Russia, at least not to the extent it does here in the UK. And yeah I agree it makes men weak and un-men like, which is probably why I ended up marrying a Russian man, but I know just as many British guys who say they hate gold-diggers, who expect them to pay for their drinks all night. Well, that’s what you have to expect if you are taking a Russian girl out. To me it just seems like a matter of perspective – your article could have been called “How to pet a Russian girl” or “Where to buy a Russian wife” … It simple as that – go to the country with a real deficit of men and an over-exaggerated image of glamorous Western life and all the skinny girls will be nice to you, but you have to pay. Simples. Is it me or does this sound wrong to anyone else?

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By the way what do you then think about the 16th centure when the bigger the woman the better culture was popular? Were they all agressive controlling and bossy? Have you met overweight Russian girls? are they evil? I reckon its the culture you fell in loive with and the culture that shapes peoples attitudes, including female. Girls are generally more femenine in Russia because of the reasons I mentioned before. They assume a more female role and behave like one. Yes, but nothing to do with their size. In Russia overweight girls I know are lovely and feminine and not even a little agressive

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индивидуальность начинается там где заканчивается сравнение

Lena, In contrast to admin, I find the woman you posted to be attractive. I do like a woman with a bit of meat on her bones and do like more voluptuous frame versus the skinny skeleton frame that so many of these models have today. On that note, I find that at least 30% of AMerican women are quite obese and about 60% are fat to the point where they are quite unattractive. I say I like a woman with meat on her bones, not blubber on her bones!

Putting beauty aside, oh sheesh, so many are infactuated with beauty, that passes away as fast as the wind. Of course, I don’t want a woman who looks bad, but I am not going to be demanding she is beautiful.

The problem with you Lena, is you come from the communist mindset. YOu blame religon for the downfall of society, when in fact, the hatred of religion brought the downfall and destruction of your society. Russia, like you say, is suffering from poverty, alcoholism and corruption. When your leaders were burning down our Jewish synagogues and even the Christian churches and throwing priests and rabbis in gulags in Siberian wasteland, I wonder who was commiting the atrocities, the religious or the anti-religious person?? Religion is marketed in the USA, just as secularism, drugs, filth and pornography are marketed in Europe. SO what? Marketing is not a sin, its a way to communicate what you have to offer. Religion isn’t corrupt, people are corrupt. Russian aristocracy, whether religious or communist was and is quite corrupt; God save the Russians!

Lena, as with most western/westernized women, you tend to have a self-absorbed, myopic view of civilization and humankind. You believe in a false utopian, eglitarian society that is only practiced in theory, but never implemented.

I will write more to you later.

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I am am American girl, Born and raised. I remember once my mother told me she knew a man from the middle east somewhere, and he told her he could never marry an American girl. When mom asked why, He replied “because they are spoiled.” I was around 12 when I was told this. But it does not account for all of us. I would give a 50/50. The bad 50% I have known were abusive fat and confrontational towards men. Use innocent man as scapegoats because they can not accept fault. I would go in to that more but I don’t want to offend these women. They might sit on me. he he. They also are very materialistic. They are taught as children to grow up gold diggers, and not many values. However, there are women here who are very good. Lets not forget America is a land founded on culture. We are a mix of everyone. So to say American women are all bad even if it is from experience, seems hypocritical to me.

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That’s nice they are skinny, but that doesn’t stop them from being Russians. They have their own set of psych problems, with money, materialism, etc. and then you are stuck bringing the in-laws over…. it goes on and on.

I am an American woman who measures 1.64cm (5’4″) with a 48cm (19″) waist and weigths 45kg ( 100lbs) and I do not think that where a woman comes from dictates her figure, or happiness. I drive everywhere, eat American food,dancing is my only exercise, and I eat all I want, without gaining a pound! In Eastern Europe it is hard to gain weight if for cultural reasons you only eat a cup of soup and cabbage roll, and for economic reasons you have to use public transportation.

When I visited Krakow,Prague,Lviv, Moscow, and Kyiv, I did not see all these thin, tall women. The majority of women(99%)were average size ( size 2-8), and they looked much fatter than me,and none of the stores or outdoor markets in Poland, Russia, or Ukraine would carry clothes that would fit my small size…

I am very thin, and stylish, so me and my other equallly thin, stylish, American friends were getting most of the attention, especially from their eastern european business men and oligarchs. The interesting thing is that we are not the exception. Most single girls under the age of 30 who live in hip cities such as Boston, NYC, LA, San Francisco, Miami, etc, are not bigger than a size 6 a popular size in Eastern women. In fact, I used to work at a boutique in NYC, and our most popular size was a 4, which contradicts your ideas of American women.

Perhaps the real reason why you are so against Americans, is that an attractive American woman would not consider you as a potential partner. From your picture and comments, I can tell that I know YOU ARE NOT FIT! and given the extensive number of good looking,intelligent, sweet, successful, and FIT guys in the US who would court us, a skinny guy like you would have NO CHANCE, and would have to go explore foreign lands in which there are literally very few men, and exploit your opportunities there…and would have to write blogs to convence himself that his wife ( whose picture is not here) is indeed hot….and that women size 4-6 are thin

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Some people are fat due to hormonal imbalances, and metabolism problems, not overeating…or lack of control…

Ha!Ha!Ha! also, you are clearly so NOT American–because if you were, you would know that American prep schools specially in New England are VERY PROGRESSIVE and most do not fit the steriotype that you are describing—most of the girls, would have a few tattos of their own, body piercings, and wear Patchulie fragances… you should really get to the nearest American consulate, apply for a visa, book a flight, and spend six months getting to know USA as it is, not as some Soviet yellow press and 15 day packaged tour to the US has presented it to you… best of luck, my friend

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I think that you should take into account more the diet that is available to women in these different parts of the world.

In America, it is much more common for foods to have high sodium, fat, and sugar contents. Most of our cities, and certainly our rural areas, are planned so that driving in a car is a necessity, which makes one have a sedentary life. The combination of these two factors makes obesity much, MUCH easier to slip into – I wonder, if the same waif-like women who you praise here were living with the same amount of self-control in the US, would they still be so waif-like? I highly doubt it.

The diet is a factor of money and personal attention to fitness. It is an odd statistic, but in the US, obesity is concentrated among the economically disadvantaged. This is because the cheapest foods are also the most unhealthy. The cheapness of our unhealthy foods also leads to more temptation to stray from a fit lifestyle than in other countries.

All of these add up to making it significantly harder to control weight. As for being fat and being personally unpleasant, I do not think that one causes the other, but rather in some cases both are symptoms of poor control over one’s self, like you said.

And for some women, they have been raised under a new paradigm; one where their worth in society does not come solely from being the perfect wife. When women begin to believe that they have worth and value outside of men, they begin to see “beauty” differently – it becomes the icing on the cake, instead of a duty they perform for the men around them. You have to realize that if you expect a woman to become your wife in your more traditional sense, you are in many ways asking her to become your servant to care for domestic chores.

To women who look for a role outside of the role of wife, being beautiful for others becomes less pressing. This, and the bad diet/environment that is in the US, is why I think you find American women to be so fat.

I enjoyed reading your post because you are very upfront with what you think about issues that have become slightly taboo to talk about. Thank you for your honesty!

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Gina, you say that you and your friends have all the good looking, attractive men that you want in the states, yet you criticize admin for going somewhere he has that very same thing with women. Why? Also, your attitude is exactly what is unattractive about American women and what admin has been trying to explain. You are the perfect example of a rude, stuck up, superficial , ego inflated American “girl”. men are leaving the country because of bridezillas lile you.

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I am a Latin American/Spanish girl. I am not tall just roughly 5’6 and weigh around 110.
When I moved to the states I noticed everything you mentioned about American Girls. It is very true and I am glad to see someone has the guts to write about it.
I was raised the traditional Spanish way to take care of myself and overindulgence is seen as weakness. Now mind you, America and its ideologies has swept through Latin America and disgustingly the city girls are are becoming fat due to Americas influence and the accessibility of fast food. The thing is I’m 18 and basically have lived in the states the majority of my life. But I do not understand American girls so most of my friends are Spanish, French, etc.

It is overindulgence with everything!! Junk food, alcohol, dairy ugh. When friends come and visit me from Europe they tend to gain a bit here in the states but right away they hit the gym and try to work it off even if its five pounds. The transportation thing does n0t help either, when I go to Spain I instantly loose 5 pounds because I walk more. In the states I am a size 2 and considered too thin, while abroad I am normal. I am a bit curvy but not fat. I hate how Americans want to hide and accept there fatness by saying their curvy.

Curvy does not mean having love handles.

It is purely a bone structure thing meaning having a broader waist. Fatness is a weakness and everyone knows it. In my family when a girl gains a lot of weight its because something is terribly wrong. American girls do not know how to take care of themselves. OK. I’m done with my rant but all I want to say people who are attacking are probably fat themselves or are into that American Mindset. Then they wonder why they have the highest obesity rate.

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Well, like I said earlier, I am maximally normal for my specific height, so I know that although I am not “skinny” at least I am normal and of average weight for the first time in my life!
And I am happy with that! I do excercise–run 30 mins. a day–and I keep healthy and trim, I would say that is all anyone could ask for in this life.

So just to be clear here: a skinny girl is one who is of average weight: not fat, but not anorexic looking either. A skinny girl is someone who has curves but is also healthy and excercises.
Is this correct?

Ok, I know I have been bouncing around on all these articles, but here I am up for evaluation:
I am….
–5 feet 5.5 inches tall; weight 146 pounds
–am conservative Christian wannabe housewife
–I have long, waist-length dirty blonde hair
–Excercise on a daily basis, now for over 3 weeks, and I plan to make this life-long, cause I am only 17. I am changing my diet and lifestyle to healthy cause I want to be healthy.
–I don’t wear that much make-up, maybe eyeshadow and blush for when I go out to a special event–which is rare, cause my mom doesn’t let me have a social life.
And it just so happens that I am american!! Hah-hah, I am not the sterotypical feminist.
So…am I skinny princess if I keep on going this way?

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“American and Western European girls have such big egos they can not be a good bride for anyone”

I am American, and I am none of the awful things you talk about. I feel the same way about American guys. Most have very big egos and only want one thing from you. I go to church, love to cook, travel, workout and do interior design/art. I’m thin, (not skinny) and Im 5’9 with long blonde hair/light green eyes.

“Where I am in Europe a size 4 or maybe size 6 is normal, with half the attitude. So why not go for thin girls who will be nice to you. Rather than some American girl who will be demanding and nag you and play games and have moods and be fat.”

You make some nice replies to other people’s comments but you are VERY insulting to American women. Was your mother American? If so, then you are very insulting to her as well.

All you men who call American women all these terrible things, are very ignorant to think ALL of us are that way. For the record, Ive know a handful of people personally who went to find “love” overseas in Eastern Europe and got their hearts smashed to pieces. Most of those girls only want a American for what they have. Of course they are nice to you, they want to move to the US(most do anyway). Once my friend’s wife got her green card, she divorced him after 2 years of living in the US.

My point is, you can NOT write articles on generalizing women, especially American women. I complimented you earlier because you truly seemed like a nice guy with nice things to say until I found this article. You sound as shovenistic your “typical” European man would.

And the reason why American men have a higher success rate with Eastern European women is due to the fact that there are way more women than men in those countries.

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Also the pictures you use on this article are rather unattractive, I am thin but, if faced with being ugly and thin or pretty and average, Id take pretty and average any day. The polish girl’s photo looks like she has a round fat face. Just sayin’. You are so critical of thinness and beauty, I would have thought you might have put a better picture up than you did. The gypsy lady is hideous looking, and we all know that Europeans are not into gypsies.

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